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An aristocracy of vibes
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Oct 5 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Perfect little immigration saga unfolding in Puerto Rico, observing all the dramatic unities for this genre...

miamiherald.com/news/local/imm… We have the smugglers: dumping Haitians on a tiny rock off the coast of Isla de Mona, itself a tiny island inhabited only by herpetic monkeys Image
Sep 7 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention... I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone
Jul 6 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights Image The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty Image
Jun 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Israel "waiting for the green light from the Americans" before the 1967 war..."combing word by word through a column in Newsweek'
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May 18 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
England's eugenic rise began as early as the 1300s
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May 17 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The 1976 Soweto student uprising is mythologized as an early noble skirmish in the fight against Apartheid. But the commencing act of violence was a student stabbing a female teacher with a screwdriver because he didn't want to learn Afrikaans. Image Much stoning of police and police vehicles. Much revolutionary not doing of homework. Image
May 7 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A weird result of 60 years of sexual egalitarian whitewashing is that every adult learns about gender differences via a series of private relationship crises--more or less excruciating--rather than that knowledge being embodied in institutions, ritual, and prejudice Guys and gals are constantly navigating what feel--from the inside--like baroque personal Odysseys, when from the outside it's just bog standard "women be shopping and boys be philandering"
May 5 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Belloc argued that where you have training and social cohesion, infantry beats cavalry. But when you lose cohesion, better to have cavalry. Image A Quora poster had a good line: "Pikes didn't make the Swiss famous; the Swiss made pikes famous"
Apr 30 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Was the French Revolution a race war, a slaughter of Nordics by Alpines?
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Image Madison Grant thought that stereoscopic vision evolved to allow accurate brachiation. Similar to @MarkChangizi's theory that it evolved to see through leaf clutter Image
Mar 15 • 19 tweets • 7 min read
Cannibalism in Haiti in the 1880s
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Mar 5 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Females outnumbering males three to one in a Congo village. Plausible? Image Inordinate attention to hair Image
Feb 29 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Eeben Barlow recruited an informant by having her fortune teller foresee that she'd be in a fender bender, that her lucky number was 777, & that a stranger would solve her money problems

Barlow's team then rear ended her car & arranged for her to meet Barlow in a hotel room #777 Image @EebenB is on Twitter. Maybe you consider his services for your next geopolitical transaction.
Feb 23 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Amazon's main page now invites you to shop by race Image @Steve_Sailer won't be surprised to hear that Amazon's "Black" emporium is a lot of product for skin and hair Image
Feb 18 • 32 tweets • 12 min read
"The proof of it is that the people flocked to the feudal structure as soon as it was completed" Image A line for @GregoryClarkUCD

"After 800 years, in spite of so many swings of the royal axe, and the immense change in the culture of society, the old feudal root lasts and still vegetates" Image
Feb 8 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Durant, in 1931, with something close to the Pendell/Rushton theory of cold winters

"Change within to meet the change outside" Image Durant noticed incipient gynocracy in the 30s Image
Feb 4 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A startling part of reading Darlington is the unapologetic way in which he assumes that, throughout history, innovations in commerce had immediate profound impacts on population genetics But living in a tax haven, I see evidence for Darlington's assumption everywhere. Capital markets, well, *capitalize* future earnings streams, so large pockets of paper wealth appear and disappear as the world lurches unpredictably through technology space...
Feb 2 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One of the many reasons I chuckle at the JQers is that one of my neighbors is Soros without the hedge fund; old Jewish guy who *founded* an entire Warren Court era field of criminal justice reform, runs institute that pushes for the "anarcho tyranny" that JQers rightly abhor... In some cosmic accounting, this guy is probably responsible for tens of thousands of criminals being released to the streets. But there is no conspiracy. Just a smart guy on a misguided mission, the way other professors might agitate for wind power or higher min wage
Jan 30 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
"Equatorial Guinea would be a mess if Lynn were right" "They wouldn't be able to maintain anything"
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Jan 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
No word for "gratitude" in Swahili, no word for "honesty" in Mpongwe? Image
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Jan 22 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
If you spend enough time around poor people, you stop thinking of this Dril tweet as satire & realize that it's pretty accurate. "Candles" is just a stand-in for a suite of astoundingly profligate behaviors. Couple of times in life I've found myself holding the *actual* budget of a poor person (compiled more or less under duress, following a family intervention), & each time it's basically been the Dril tweet. Like the rank orders of the categories don't even make sense.
Jan 3 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
1\ 🇵🇷 A GUIDE TO EATING SPICY IN PUERTO RICO! 🇵🇷

Welcome to the 18th parallel, a conveyor belt of flavor that links such pinnacles of piquancy as India, Thailand, Mexico, and...La Isla del Encanto!

LET'S TALK HEAT! Image 2\ If you're a gringo, you need to check your assumptions like lost luggage. Forget household names like "jalapeno", "serrano", "habanero", and "ghost pepper".

What do you think this is, Arkansas? You need to know how to get down with LOCAL flavor. Image